ABOUT THE FILM: With strains of his nihilistic youth-culture script for Larry Clark’s KIDS, Harmony Korine’s directorial debut moves out of the city to wander the post-apocalyptic fallout of a suburban Midwestern landscape recently ravaged by a tornado. Weaving between the day-to-day lives of various poverty-stricken small-town outcasts, GUMMO’s scattershot structure and varied shooting styles present a collage of American themes on the precipice of an unpredictable new millennium, ultimately yielding a movie that Gus Van Sant called “both bracingly realistic and hauntingly dreamlike.” FORMAT: 35mm DISTRIBUTOR: Warner Bros. COUNTRY: USA
